Marseillais pizza is the thin Sicilian-rooted version, the canonical order half cheese and half anchovy, baked in a wood oven and cut into thin slices, often eaten standing at a counter or out of a paper.
Marseille's Sicilian and Calabrian immigrants from the early 20th century brought the wood-fired pizza tradition that became Marseillais pizza, distinct from the Neapolitan version with a thinner crust and a sharper salt-and-anchovy edge. Chez Etienne in Le Panier (1943) and Chez Sauveur in Noailles (1943) are the canonical rooms, both still cooking without menus on cash-only terms. The half-anchovy half-cheese is the local Marseillais order, asked for as the moitie-moitie.
4 editor picks for Marseillais pizza in Marseille, ranked by editorial score. All Marseille signature dishes · Marseillais pizza across every city.
Chez Etienne ★ 4.5
2e · 43 rue de Lorette, 13002 Marseille
Chez Etienne in Marseille's 2e Panier has cooked wood-fired Marseillais pizza since 1943, no menu, cash only, the half-anchovy half-cheese the local order since the Sicilian original.
Chez Sauveur ★ 4.4
1er · 10 Rue d'Aubagne, 13001 Marseille
Chez Sauveur in Marseille's 1er Noailles has cooked Sicilian-rooted Marseillais pizza since 1943 founded by Sauveur Di Paola, taken over in 2023 by a young team that kept the wood oven going.
Pizza Charly ★ 4.4
24 Rue des Feuillants, 13001 Marseille
Pizza Charly in Marseille's 1er Noailles has slung al taglio pizza since 1962, slice EUR 1, half pizza EUR 2, the anchovy-no-cheese the local Marseillais order at the family counter.
Le Vieux Panier ★ 3.8
2e · 13 Place de Lenche, 13002 Marseille
Le Vieux Panier in Marseille's 2e on the Place de Lenche is a wood-fired pizzeria with a small terrace looking down toward the Vieux Port and the MUCEM museum on the hill.